A few of the influences on my career so far have been Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and seeing the riots of 1968 in Paris.

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.

Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!'

Frank Gehry not only understood my sense of fun and adventure but also reciprocated it and translated that feeling into his work.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.